Gossypium herbaceum
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Cotton-plant A powerful emmenagogue, used in physiological doses. Homeopathically, it corresponds to many reflex conditions, depending on disturbed uterine function and pregnancy. Gossypium will relieve tardy menses, especially with sensation that the flow is about to start and yet does not do so. Tall, bloodless patients, with nervous chills.
Head
Pain in cervical region with tendency for head to draw backward with nervousness.
Stomach
Nausea, with inclination to vomit before breakfast. Anorexia, with uneasy feeling at scrobiculum at time of menses.
Female
Labia swollen and itching. Intermittent pain in ovaries. Retained placenta. Tumor of the breast with swelling of axillary glands. Morning sickness, with sensitive uterine region. Suppressed menstruation. Menses too watery. Backache, weight and dragging in pelvis. Uterine sub-involution and fibroids, with gastric pain and debility.
Relationships
Compare: Action similar to Ergot when made from fresh green root. Lilium; Cimicif; Sabina.
Dose
Tincture, to sixth attenuation.
What the other books say about Gossypium herbaceum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Gossypium herbaceum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Gossypium herbaceum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/gossypium-herbaceum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.